Editors of the International Research Confederacy on African Literatureand Culture (IRCALC) are currently receiving submissions in existingliteratures and oratures of Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africainvolving issues in contemporary postcolonial modernities and citizenship(re)definitions.

This time we have chosen to look specifically at the literature ofConflict, of War and Post war dilemmas; literatures that address thediscords and divisions within Africa, the question of historicaldisputes, of ideological, tribal and cultural clashes and the resultanttensions wrought on individuals and family, citizens and leaderships, onnational and continental scales.

While our proposition is to look for arguments confronting any one ormore theories for critique, interpretation or exposition of poetry,fiction, biographies, travelogues, irrespective of the language ofnarrative, which explore the idea of conflicts in African past andcontemporary histories, our objective is in the discernment of how suchliteratures of contemporary African and Diasporic existence should bereceived by literary communities from Africa-centred perspectives, andwhat implications for African cultures and literatures may abound bytheir existence and studies. In other words, how have these conflictsdeveloped free, independent and uncluttered aesthetics of Africanliterature in the last decades of their appearance?

Submissions Guidelines:We require before the deadline of August 2007, original abstracts of nomore than 600 words showing topic, intended arguments and their relevanceto the discourse theme or subcategory to be submitted by Microsoft Wordattachment to the Editors, ircalc_at_gmail.com If accepted contributors willbe notified by correspondence and their abstracts published on thewebsite. All original submissions shall come in English. Materials inFrench and other indigenous African languages such as Hausa and Swahilishall be accepted as long as they are followed by their Englishtranslations. Papers which citations do follow the MLA 2003 format willbe rejected. See further details on the web www.africaresearch.org